CNBC.comWhere the Budget Cut Pain Is Really Being FeltCNBC.comFlight delays from furloughs of air traffic controllers may seem like the start of the predicted doom of sequestration. But for many, the pain of the mandated budget cuts are already being felt. "The cuts are hitting some people really hard," said Joel Packer, ...Fingers point over flight delays - LaHood says it might get worse - Finance ...Politico (blog)Sequester slams air-traffic control systemExaminer.comWill sequestration affect US aviation safety?eTurboNewsFederalNewsRadio.com -Daily Caller -24/7 Wall St.all 81 news articles »

Obama to open middle-class jobs, opportunity tourAiming to show he's still focused on creating jobs, President Barack Obama is beginning a series of quick trips around the country to resurrect ideas from his State of the Union address that became overshadowed by the intense debates over gun control, immigration and automatic spending cuts. More

GOP boycotts health care advisory boardHouse and Senate Republican leaders told President Barack Obama Thursday that they will refuse to nominate candidates to serve on an advisory board that is to play a role in holding down Medicare costs under the new health care act. More

US medicine spending shows rare dipTotal U.S. spending on prescription medicines declined last year, a first in more than half a century. The dip was 1 percent, to $325.8 billion — a 3.5 percent drop after accounting for population growth and economic expansion, according to the IMS Institute for Healthcare Informatics. More

Obama signs legislation ending FAA furloughsPresident Barack Obama has signed into law a bill to end furloughs of air traffic controllers. The furloughs stemmed from the automatic, across-the-board spending cuts that started taking effect in March. Millions of air travelers were affected recently by delayed flights across the country because of the furloughs. More

Bill de Blasio Faces the Fury of New Yorkers, on and off “The Brian Lehrer Show”Responding to questions from residents of the city about police brutality and the recent protests, the Mayor offered defensiveness, denial, and bizarre false equivalence.06/6/2020 - 8:21 am | View Link

Travelodge’s Woes Pit U.K. Savers Against Wall Street TitansThat’s bad news for Travelodge’s landlords, many of which are real-estate investment funds popular with pensioners, because they pay regular dividends backed by rental income. They have until June 19 ...06/5/2020 - 8:30 pm | View Link

Police union calls LA mayor ‘unstable,’ faults budget cuts | Charlotte ObserverThe police union in Los Angeles is ridiculing Mayor Eric Garcetti for referring to “killers” in comments about a proposed change in city and police spending following the death of George Floyd in ...06/5/2020 - 2:29 pm | View Link

Depleted sales tax revenue means states have to cut budgetsWith consumer spending down a record 13.6% in April and another 1.9 million unemployment claims last week, states are collecting less money in taxes. Texas, for example, collected a whopping 13% less ...06/4/2020 - 10:26 am | View Link

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CHICAGO  Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot said the city will not tolerate vigilantism after groups of mostly white men patrolled the streets of the Bridgeport neighborhood on Wednesday night in response to a nearby city protest. Multiple streets were blocked in the Bridgeport neighborhood Wednesday night as nearby protests dispersed.

New York City educators are mounting a letter-writing campaign to urge Mayor Bill de Blasio and city and state lawmakers to dramatically slash funding to the police department and instead divert millions of dollars to public schools. The campaign, launched by Brooklyn MS 839 principal Michael Perlberg and first reported by Chalkbeat, has garnered more than 600 signatures from school supervisors, teachers and parent activists.

Here I am a drunk, a sinner, a hater, a racist currently sober and yes the first description of myself leads all the rest. Its no secret what I believe as I've made clear in countless posts but intoxication is the big issue. Drugs, Alcohol And Pornography lay behind the evil violence that kills and destroys and hurts people and property and politicians can't preach that to people.

The Pentagon has told National Guardsmen deployed to the nations capital not to use firearms or ammunition, and has issued orders to send home active-duty troops that the Trump administration amassed outside the city in recent days, a sign of de-escalation in the federal response to protests in the city.

In a new series based on the beloved Looney Tunes cartoons, the classic character Elmer Fudd will no longer carry a gun. The new series Looney Tunes Cartoons, which premiered last week on the streaming service HBO Max, will feature the cartoons characteristic violence  using sticks of dynamite, booby traps and the iconic anvils and bank safes dropped onto characters, The New York Times reported last week.